FREDERIKSBERG
THE SET-UP is meant to be a gag. What started out as curiosity from club skipper Erwan ‘Cappy’ Caquineau as to why he hadn’t yet been interviewed by Rugby World turned into a top table, press conference-style Q&A. The intention is to wind him up a bit, but as questions get that little bit deeper and the phone cameras keep rolling, we’re starting to get concerned that our own chat is sounding a little LinkedIn in tone. And hang on a sec, is Cappy now getting misty-eyed as he extols the virtue of a community club like this? Sure, I’ll take another grenade of Tuborg, thanks…
Welcome to Frederiksberg, a chilled club in Denmark’s capital region that in recent years has become a national juggernaut and attracts a handy core of expats to their doors. As we take in their match-up with Copenhagen rivals CSR-Nanok, they have a: the writer’s brother, Andy, is the nine. How did he trick us into this one?).
